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Feb, 2008

Observation of energy gap in FeGa3

JOURNAL OF THE PHYSICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN
  • Naohito Tsujii
  • Hitoshi Yamaoka
  • Masaharu Matsunami
  • Ritsuko Eguchi
  • Yukiaki Ishida
  • Yasunori Senba
  • Haruhiko Ohashi
  • Shik Shin
  • Takao Furubayashi
  • Hideki Abe
  • Hideaki Kitazawa
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Volume
77
Number
2
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (scientific journal)
DOI
10.1143/JPSJ.77.024705
Publisher
PHYSICAL SOC JAPAN

The existence of an energy gap around the Fermi energy is established experimentally for the intermetallic compound FeGa3. Fe-57 Mossbauer spectra measured at room temperature confirmed the absence of magnetic ordering. The temperature dependence of magnetic susceptibility, chi(T), measured on single-crystalline samples showed diamagnetic behavior below room temperature, and it increased exponentially with temperature above 500 K. Fitting to the high-temperature data yielded an energy gap A of 0.29-0.45 eV. Valence-band x-ray photoemission spectra directly revealed the energy gap, the size of which was estimated to be Delta < (similar to)under tilde> 0.8 eV. These results agree with the prediction by recent band calculations.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1143/JPSJ.77.024705
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000253354600029&DestApp=WOS_CPL
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  • DOI : 10.1143/JPSJ.77.024705
  • ISSN : 0031-9015
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000253354600029

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